After watching Wallenpaupack's Joe DeFebo run for 328 yards and five touchdowns in a 37-20 victory over the Panthers at Pocono Mountain School District Stadium on Friday, McCarroll knew there was work to be done. The good news was there's plenty of time to do it with nine weeks of football remaining.

"We've got to do a little better job and obviously you saw that on defense," McCarroll said. "That kid was pretty good. We've got to go back to the drawing board a little bit and see what we did when we made mistakes. I've got to watch the film and see what really happened there. They did a nice job on isolating us on the backside and that kid took it to us. So we've got to look what we need to do and work on what we need to do for next week and get better at that.

"You know obviously teams are going to watch this film and try to do the same thing Paupack did against us."

There were some positives.

Pocono West came out strong, scoring the first 14 points of the game on touchdown runs of 32 yards and 24 yards by Franklyn Quiteh. Terrence Quiteh gave the Panthers a spark in the fourth quarter, running for 67 of his 108 yards and a touchdown.

"There's a lot of positives right here and we have to concentrate on those and continue to work and get better each and every day," McCarroll said.

West did that last year.

They Panthers dropped their first two games, including a 26-7 loss to the Buckhorns in Week 1, but bounced back to win seven of their last nine on their way to winning the Mountain Valley Conference championship.

"This happened last year," McCarroll said. "We went up to Paupack and lost 26-7 and we got better as the year went on. It's Week 1. We're going to keep getting better and we're going to keep working with these kids and we're not quitting obviously. We're going to look at this film and see what we need to correct and get ready for Week 2 next week. That's all we're concerned with right now."